The God Delusion (Unabridged)

"Richard Dawkins is the leading soothsayer of our time....The God Delusion continues his thought-provoking tradition." (J. Craig Venter, decoder of the human genome)
"The God Delusion is smart, compassionate, and true....If this book doesn't change the world, we're all screwed." (Penn & Teller)
"The world needs...passionate rationalists....Richard Dawkins so stands out through the cutting intelligence of The God Delusion." (James D. Watson, co-discoverer of DNA, author of The Double Helix)

Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.

He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly.

Dawkins has fashioned an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of "intelligent design", or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East or Middle America.

©2006 Richard Dawkins; (P)2006 Tantor Media, Inc.

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 Erhellend von stelladottir aus Schwielowsee am 27.12.2009

Sicherlich ein sehr umstrittenes Buch in diversen Kreisen. Jedoch für jeden weltlichen und vor allem vernunftbegabten Menschen ein Muß. Die Kritiken, die das Buch als ebenso fanatisch beschreiben, wie die Religionen, über deren fatalen Fanatismus und derene Konsequenzen das Buch handelt, kann ich nicht nachvollziehen. Es mag Teile geben, über die man streiten kann, aber in den Grundzügen und dessen, was im Kern beschrieben wird, sollte sich meiner Hoffnung nach jeder denkende Mensch wiederfinden. Das würde so manche Konflikte in der Welt lösen.

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